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Cinder House
Cinder House replaced Cielo as the restaurant inside the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis, and it delivers the sleek luxury and expensive prices you expect from the high-end hotel chain — and the same views of downtown you loved at its predecessor. Thanks to acclaimed chef Gerard Craft, though, Cinder House provides something more than conspicuous consumption. Craft’s childhood nanny, Dia, the late Cecelia Assuncao, was a formative influence on his cooking, and the best dishes here honor the cuisine of her native Brazil: feijoada, brimming with pork, beef and black beans; the seafood stew moqueca; Assuncao’s own recipe for cheese bread. Cinder House more broadly features wood-fired fare, with steaks as well as pork and lamb chops.
Hours: Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
Last year's ranking: New this year
Opened: 2018